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SPECIAL YEETITIG <br />IaY 2 7th . , 19 33 <br />IM <br />Special meet inr- held by the i3oa.rd of Public Safety, , nturday, 1 -11 27th., <br />1933. <br />1 called to order by 17r. C. A. Budd, President, at 2 P. 1% All <br />members present. <br />POT ICE DEPA RTIE,117 <br />A comrnunication from the 1'ayor eras received by the Board which read as <br />follows : <br />ldl 27, 1933 <br />Yr. C. A. Buff President, <br />Boa rd of Public E>afe ty , <br />South Bend, Indiana. <br />'dear 1'r. Budd: <br />Please call your Board into a special meeting for the purnos e of suspend- <br />ing Chief of Police, John F. Kuespert, from his duties as cnlef of police <br />of the City of South Bend until a thorough end fair invest ig<tion of all <br />circumstances surrounding the telephone call_ I received this morning. <br />Confirming my conversation with you, it was my understanding T was talking <br />to Chief of Police, John P Kuespert, who said to me: "If ,you come near <br />the City Fall today, I'll kill you.." A nev..rspaper reporter informs me <br />that oli.e of their representatives Eras present during the conversation <br />and that their pa -per will. carry a story this evening covering ghat trens- <br />pired in the Detective Bureau at the time 1:'r. Kuespert is proported to <br />have c ^lied me <br />This suspension to be in effect until all of the facts and circumstances <br />surrounding this episode have been fully investigated, and if found to <br />be true immediate am proper action to be taken on the basis of the facts. <br />Ve rcr t xu l y your s, <br />"j. R. Tinkle, 1, <br />Pith. the investigation that the Board. has been able rpa.k, it has found <br />that due to the sudden and. terri bl_e tra ged.y t hi ch resulted in the dee the <br />of officers Delbert '.Thompson and Charles Farkas and t?-e injuries to <br />officer D. A. P so affected. Chief of Police John 8. Kuespert that he <br />lost his mental poise which resulted in a nervous breakdown. <br />- motion was r.de by Er. Trost, seconded b7r 1.'r. Gadaez and unanimously <br />carried. that Chief of Police John B. Kuespert be and is suspended and that <br />i Chief T'orace Familt on take Rill ch nrge , of the police department <br />until such time as the accusation mare by the 1i can be investigated <br />fully. <br />1 = ink° ad i ourned at 3 P. Y. <br />Pre sit) ent <br />j'-ttest: <br />— /� - zz�� <br />C 1 rk o f t he B oa rd <br />